AMANDA BRETT WATERCOLOUR ARTIST
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Workshops @ The Drawing Room, Christchurch NZ

Workshops @ The Drawing Room Chch​ - October 2020

​A favourite quote:
Painting a watercolour is making the best of an emergency.
John Singer Sargent
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En Plein Air 
Christchurch City
21-22 October
My En Plein Air Workshop will focus on sketching and painting from direct observation, studying perspective, observing light and shadow shapes. we'll also discuss subject selection and simplification, quick sketching techniques, palette selection, composition, value contrast and more.
I start the morning with a demonstration and then let you loose to create your own work and then assist each of you in turn throughout the afternoon.

not suitable for absolute beginners, some sketching skills essential 


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Painting Outside the Lines
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Abstract Watermedia
24-25 October
​Discoveries in watercolour are all the sweeter because it’s a fantastic medium to play with. This is where you can make your best discoveries – just by playing and understanding the relationships between hand, heart, brush, paper, pigment and water! Playing gives us the confidence to just take a risk and throw some colour down and see what happens. Playing also gives us the latitude to slow down and see the wonders the pigments create all by themselves leading us to paint and create intuitively. 
In this workshop, we’ll explore abstraction and design, shapes and marks, pattern and creating physical and visual texture. We’ll also focus on playing with new colours and pigments, new tools and media and develop our concept and design thinking processes. 

 
Join me and experiment with washes, shapes, texture, mixed watermedia, collage and more to create abstracty floral or still life works of art!! 
not suitable for absolute beginners, some sketching skills essential 

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My demonstration and original paintings will be
​available for sale at discounted prices 
​​for workshop students.​​
Amanda's daily demonstrations include an emphasis on design principles, composition, colour and value relationships. 
By helping you to simplify what you see and how you think, Amanda will work with you to develop quick
and energetic painting skills whilst focusing on your painting "idea". ​A wonderful opportunity to paint with a
​contemporary watercolour master.
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"Thank you Amanda. I had a great time at your workshop on Saturday! I have done as you suggested, drawing & sketching and also playing with paints and colours, I’m really enjoying it and it’s a good way to relax.
​Thank you!" Nisha

"Your course gave me the confidence to play with watercolour!! Many thanks to you for your fun approach to teaching, it really helped me to have a go for the sheer pleasure of it." Carol
"Just want to thank you so much for the class last night - your encouragement and grace is so wonderful. I still can't believe I actually painted! And I'm thrilled with my effort, please tell me that tomorrow is Wednesday!!!" :) Katherine
"All credit to Amanda Brett Artist my wonderful encouraging teacher. Without her I would not have got this far." Catherine

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Amanda Brett - Watercolour Artist

Quality Guarantee: All my watercolours are painted with only modern professional grade watercolour paints on Museum exhibition grade watercolour papers, they are extremely lightfast and will become a family heirloom and passed down to subsequent generations. If​ properly cared for, watercolour paintings will last as long, if not longer, than oil paintings. I only paint on 100% cotton rag paper, mostly Arches and Fabriano, and frame to conservation standard with acid free materials.
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